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Facts and figures from the 2025/26 season - Part 1
Stage with the most goal contributions for Werder
21/05/26 | 3 Min
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The 2025/26 season certainly ended differently than SV Werder would have hoped, with the Green-Whites finishing 15th in the table. Even so, several Werder players still posted standout numbers. Which player replaced Marvin Ducksch as Werder’s leading goal contributor, who spent the most time on the pitch, and in which category did Amos Pieper top the Bundesliga? Here are the facts and figures from the campaign just gone.
Most goal involvements: Jens Stage retained his crown as Werder’s top goalscorer. As in 2024/25, the Dane scored 10 league goals and once again finished as the club’s leading marksman. Alongside Romano Schmid, the midfielder also replaced Marvin Ducksch as the players to record the most goal contributions. Stage added two assists to his 10 goals, while Schmid recorded four goals and eight assists to finish on 12 goal involvements each. Yukinari Sugawara provided six assists, having a hand in the third-most goals at SVW.
The ever-present: Romano Schmid started all 34 Bundesliga games. The Austria international missed just 72 minutes across the entire season, meaning he even spent more time on the pitch (2,988 minutes) than goalkeeper Mio Backhaus (2,880). Backhaus missed the away game in Munich and the home game against FC St. Pauli due to a shoulder injury. Senne Lynen (2,757) recorded the third-highest number of minutes.
Going the distance: Players who spend that much time on the pitch are naturally well placed to rank highly for distance covered. Across those 34 matches, Romano Schmid covered 367.33 kilometres, the ninth-highest total of any Bundesliga player. Former Werder man Maximilian Eggestein, now at SC Freiburg, topped the league-wide ranking with 406.9 km. Senne Lynen (360.52 km, 11th) and Jens Stage (321.57 km, 32nd) also posted strong numbers.
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The tough tackler: No Bundesliga player won a higher percentage of aerial duels than Amos Pieper (79.6%) in 2025/26. Among players to have featured for at least a third of the minutes possible all season, Werder’s centre-back finished ahead of Hamburg’s Luka Vuskovic (73.9%) and Wolfsburg’s Denis Vavro (73.5%). Vuskovic was also the only player (69.1%) to record a better overall challenge success rate than Pieper (67.8%).
The fastest: Justin Njinmah climbed the Bundesliga speed rankings this season. Last term, the forward (35.34 km/h) finished fourth among Werder players behind Oliver Burke (36.72 km/h), Felix Agu (36.31 km/h) and Derrick Köhn (35.81 km/h). Burke, now at 1. FC Union Berlin, topped the league’s speed charts with 37 km/h, but Njinmah finished the season as Werder’s fastest player (36.19 km/h, sixth overall), improving on his top speed from last term.
Under pressure: Last season, only Florian Wirtz and Michael Olise had more situations where they were placed under significant pressure but retained the ball than Werder’s Romano Schmid. This time around, Werder’s number 20 again finished third, behind Bayern’s Olise (625) and Leipzig’s Yan Diomande (442), with 431. Schmid’s composure under pressure also helps him create danger in the final third. Across the Bundesliga, only Diomande’s teammate David Raum (96) set up more shots than Schmid (87).
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